The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1887-11-11
PERSONAL plcklNes
Bret Harte has decided to take up his abos
permanently in suburb Of London.


Bret Harte has decided to take up his abode
permanently in q suburb Of London.
Edwin Booth keeps up his habit Of smoking
from one to two dozen cigars per day.
Emperor William has arrived at Berlin
from Baden Baden. He Is enjoying good
heath.
Charles Dickens says that the pictures OF
American life painted by his father have be-
come antiqunted.
Wayne MacVeagh never talks politics and
Invariably excuses himself on the ground that
be is devoting himself entirely to his law
practice.
Mr.. Henry Irving is in favor of municipal
theatres. He declares it to be his belief that
well conducted theatre is as necessary as q
free library.
Ex-Assistant Secretary Of the Treasury
Charles e. Coon is in Europe engaged in
great financial transactions in which millions
are involved.
The king Of Corea furnished his winter
palace with s1s, 600 worth Of American chairs,
beds and tables. He also boughtan American
steamer for s2S,000. 3
Col. Thomas Porterhouse Ochiltree is will
ing to confess that he made money recently
in Wall street, but says the amount was not
100000, as reported.
Gen. Lew Wallace, while in Constantinople,
became a personal friend Of the present sui
tan, and communication betwean them has
been kept up ever since.
William Walter Phelps is a. fond Of artis-
tic neckties as Gen. Husted Or the late Emery
storrs, and he finds great delight in strolling
by the haberdashers' windows.
The Duke and Duchess of Montrose, accom-
panied by the Dowager Duchess, known for
her devotion to the race course, started for
India at the close Of the racing season in Eng
land.
There is no truth in the. story that Tolstoi,
the great Russian novelist, is out of his mind
A Russian journalist, who has just paid him
visit, describes him as perfectly healthy
aud perfectly sane.
NJ Grevy, president Of the French Repub-
lie, enjoys smoking a pipe, and does SO when
ever he can without offending decorum. He
is man Of very simple habits, and rises and
retires at IN early hour.
John R. Tucker, of Virginia, one of the
counsel for the condemned Anarchists of
Chicago, is a great buttermilk drinker. BE
thinks it is tho best beverage in the world for
USE While making speech.
! Henry W. Grady, Of The Atlanta Constitu.
tion, is a bird fancer. He has had eighteen
pairs Of pigeons shipped him from Utica,
N. Y. There are pigeons of all sorts up IN
! Utica, ;.nd some of the other sort ought to be
| Slipped too.
Walter Besant's effort to raise soOO,O 600 tc
/ Il ~ y
to n1ind,tac facS that the great novelist in hi
will esnt,hatically disapproved of any such
act on the part Of his admirers. He believed
that his works We're sufficient monument tc
his memory.
4. Mr.. john jacob Astor's gastric fever is sale
to have hsen brought on by eating appl,
dulnpliaes There is $1,000 year chef il
the house, tut Mrs Astor prefers old fash
ioned New England cooking and has IL pre-
pared by an old negro woman employed fol
that purpose.
| Valid Aid, the dead King of Oudh, was
poet, whose renown extends from the Hilna
layas to Cape Comorin, for his love song
have obtained an immense popularit,
A throughout India. His majesty received
pension of stioO,GG0 n year from tho lndial
government, which will be continued to hi
\ heirs.
. Channcey NJ. Depew arranges his Dime
engagements just the same as route agen
for Il theatrical combination maps out hi
dates. He has q book in which are noted ii
one column tho day and date, in another it
acceptance, or ,.eclination and in the third tn
topis. he i; t;i .ak on. Private Secretar
Duvol has !.a..s:ssc Of this diary. IIe is kep
busy "bot;i,irts dates gust now.
DR. w Seward Webb. the son-in-law O
W. II. Vanderbilt and president of the Cen
trails sleeping car service, is large land
holder in Vermont. where he has just eee
indicted for breach Of the local drivin
laws. He has two mile patch of the LAX
Champlain coast below Burlington, and hope
to establish q fashionable colony. He is S
popular there that hi; indictment is a surpris.
King Hunbert, Of Italy, often causes ar
noyarcc and embarrassment BY taking
fancy to any little novelty which he mny re
il. the hands of any Of his courtiers. No mat
, ter what it is-a cane of rare wood, jewt
set il some curious way, or a fantastic waite
! his majesty will show such an intense d.
Sir, to possess it that finally the object
offered him. and it is always replaced by
present of double or triple it's value.
LONGEVITY NOTES.